Today I am a war-oath in an ancient alphabet
and the sun inscribes me with its thousand arms
over and over on trees and parking lots;
a foreign syllable, an unwanted article of speech,
I speak my ire unheard and alight again,
while a thousand footsteps die to smooth one stone stair.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
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